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The Whole Health Medicine Institute's 2020 Program

Courses Start March 30, 2020

Join your peers for one of two transformational programs that will change your world.

Revolutionalize how you practice health care.

​Reclaim control of your own health.

Become a fierce warrior for a new health paradigm.

“The all-powerful mind can control your reality, and all you have to do is learn to harness it.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

Dear Friends,

In 2008 I took a leap of faith and quit my stable, lucrative, and stressful job as a full-time physician in a busy managed care OB/GYN practice.

I knew I was called to be a healer, but practicing medicine within our broken health care system was sucking my soul dry.

I couldn’t help feeling like I was colluding with a corrupt system that gives lip service to patient well-being. While so many doctors I know really do care about patient well-being, the system puts profits before people.

My disillusionment with the system I had worked so hard to be a part of left me with a burning desire to create a revolution in health care. I wanted to change how we think about health and healing and to shift the paradigm of modern medicine in ways that actually optimize health outcomes.

I came to realize the best way I could do this was by developing a training program to teach what I’ve learned.

This is how the Whole Health Medicine Institute was born. A place where health care providers and those seeking healing could receive a deep and direct understanding of the body-mind-spirit continuum so we could scale this, infiltrate it into public health, and bring real healing to those who need it most.

Today, I invite you to join me in this revolution by learning how to practice Whole Health Medicine yourself, as a healer or in your own life.

Over the span of your immersion in the revolutionary curriculum I've developed you’ll have the opportunity to experience your own deep healing, learn from pre-eminent teachers about the psychospiritual dimensions of healing, and create a foundation for your own health care practice.

My deepest desire is that you too contribute in ways that align with your authenticity, that you heal the wounds to your own soul from our broken system, and that you thrive in your life and your work.

All my best,

Lissa

Listen to Lissa Rankin, MD share the intent & objectives

of the Whole Health Medicine Institute.

Whole Health requires bringing all the tools in the medicine boxes of all departments and cultures together, and doing so with respect, reverence, and regard for the sacred medicines of all physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic healing modalities.

Whole Health asks us to end the fragmentation that divides healing into different academic silos, where “never the twain shall meet.”

Whole Health invites unification of all of the aspects of what makes us whole as human beings, encompassing our:

Mind, body, spirit, and energy

Relationships

​Works

​Creativity

​Sexuality

​Living environments

And all other aspects of what makes us authentically expressed, integrated humans.

Many who are trained to treat one aspect of health get insufficient education in other aspects of Whole Health. Their focus is narrowly directed at specific aspects of a person rather than the complete picture of their life:

For example, body-focused practitioners tend to focus on traditional healthy behaviors, such as conventional medical approaches, diet, exercise, physical adjustments, or herbs and supplements, while neglecting psycho-spiritual and energetic root causes and treatments.

The Whole Health Medicine Institute seeks to fill in the gaps. We specialize in educating body-oriented practitioners who have insufficiently educated in mental, emotional, spiritual, and trauma healing modalities that may help cure otherwise “incurable,” “untreatable,” or “terminal” conditions.

"The all-powerful mind can control your reality, and all you have to do is learn to harness it."

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

"The all-powerful mind can control your reality, and all you have to do is learn to harness it."

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

The Whole Health

Medicine Institute

Our mission at Whole Health Medicine Institute is to reintroduce an understanding and practice of the psychospiritual dimension into the healing process.

The WHMI exists to pick up where mainstream health modalities are failing. That is in deepening the knowledge and understanding of the extensive power and profound impact of practicing psychospiritual transformation as an intentional and expertly integrated piece of the healing process.

WHMI brings a deep and direct understanding of the body-mind-spirit continuum to physicians, nurses, health experts, and health care providers. We believe that this understanding is critical for complete and sustained healing and growth, and necessary to reveal the untapped resources and potential of your body.

Our courses, workshops, and training are designed to help you understand and apply a Whole Body Medicine approach in your life and in your practice.

We support practitioners in building a thriving healing practice as we believe this is necessary to provide the material and organizational resources needed to accelerate the reintegration of psychospiritual work into the healing process and the health care industry.

About WHMI Founder Lissa Rankin, MD

“Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Daily Flame, Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling is a physician, speaker, creator of The Daily Flame, and mystic.

Bridging between seemingly disparate worlds, Lissa is a connector, collaborator, curator, and amplifier, broadcasting not only her unique visionary ideas, but also those of cutting edge visionaries she discerns and trusts, especially in the field of her latest research into “Sacred Medicine.”

In 2012, Lissa founded the Whole Health Medicine Institute, where she and a team of luminary faculty train physicians and other health care providers about “Whole Health” and the “6 Steps to Healing Yourself.” Lissa has starred in two National Public Television specials, her TEDx talks have been viewed over 4 million times, and she leads workshops, both online and at retreat centers like Esalen, 1440, Omega, and Kripalu.

Her latest project is non-profit work committed to eliminating the public health epidemic of loneliness while bringing Sacred Medicine out of its current status as a luxury good for privileged elites and bringing it to anyone who needs it and is open to it, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or gender identity.

The Three Pillars of Whole Health Medicine Institute Curriculum

Heal the Healer

Core Master Programs

Business Development

We can help others heal and heal our health care system. But to be effective healers, we must heal ourselves first. The Healer aspect of WHMI is one of the most radically transformational aspects of the program. You will be asked to dive into your own psycho-spiritual healing journey because we can’t effectively heal others if we are operating from our own wounds.

The 2020 core curriculum will include Lissa’s updated teachings of the revised 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. In addition with over 40 experts in energy medicine, mind-body-spirit integration, research, practice, and business building in more than 31 recorded and live modules we offer everything we think well-trained mind-body-spirit practitioners should know about what conventional medicine and psychology tend to leave out.

We want you to successfully integrate your insights and understanding into the professional world and as part of the program, we help you develop a visionary and successful business by helping you translate your new knowledge, awareness, and tools into a practical, grounded, thriving business that actually pays the bills and allows you to bring your unique contributions into a world in need of your gifts.

The Three Pillars of Whole Health Medicine Institute Curriculum

Heal the Healer

We can help others heal and heal our health care system. But to be effective healers, we must heal ourselves first. The Healer aspect of WHMI is one of the most radically transformational aspects of the program. You will be asked to dive into your own psycho-spiritual healing journey because we can’t effectively heal others if we are operating from our own wounds.

Core Master Programs

The 2020 core curriculum will include Lissa’s updated teachings of the revised 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. In addition with over 40 experts in energy medicine, mind-body-spirit integration, research, practice, and business building in more than 31 recorded and live modules we offer everything we think well-trained mind-body-spirit practitioners should know about what conventional medicine and psychology tend to leave out.

Business Development

We want you to successfully integrate your insights and understanding into the professional world and as part of the program, we help you develop a visionary and successful business by helping you translate your new knowledge, awareness, and tools into a practical, grounded, thriving business that actually pays the bills and allows you to bring your unique contributions into a world in need of your gifts.

“The mind-body-spirit link has been advocated by medical pioneers for decades. Yet, in spite of this, it has failed to shoulder its way into the mainstream medical community.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“The mind-body-spirit link has been advocated by medical pioneers for decades. Yet, in spite of this, it has failed to shoulder its way into the mainstream medical community.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

Is This Course Right for Me?

At the Whole Health Medicine Institute, we are passionate about you, the well-being of your clients, your radical, vital, visionary life, and your professional success! This program is right for you if:

If you are a professional who feels severely limited in your practice by the current state of health care and you aspire to take your current or future work to the next level, this is for you.

If you crave a profound experience of self-healing, personal growth, and transformation this course is designed for you.

​If your vision of health includes addressing mental, emotional and spiritual transformation, these are the skills you require.

​If you need to grow a successful practice integrating Whole Body Medicine - we have the training you need.

What does the wisdom of your intuition tell you? Is the Whole Health Medicine Institute right for you, your body, your mind, your heart, your soul, your spirit, and your business? If you're a full-body yes to the program we look forward to you joining us this year!

Who Is Eligible for WHMI?

Professional Health Care Providers

Whether you are an allopathic physician, a functional medicine doctor, an integrative health care specialist, a naturopath, homeopath, alternative, complementary medicine, or similar or are following a distinct and robust beckoning to serve in the field of healing, and this is your calling.

People Interested in Participating in Their Healing or the Healing of Loved Ones

To serve others on a fundamental level in healing, one first has to heal oneself. This program offers a direct experience that will facilitate a significant shift in your breakthrough healing.

2020 WHMI FACULTY & CONTRIBUTORS

Every year, Lissa meets new people working at the cutting edge of Whole Health Medicine. These healers, visionaries, leaders and teachers have all contributed to create the robust curriculum that you'll dive into as a student of the Whole Health Medicine Institute.

Here are the 2020 WHMI faculty:

For the more complete bios of WHMI's well-renowned faculty and contributors, click here.

WHMI Featured Faculty

Bernie Siegel, MD

is a retired general/pediatric surgeon who is now involved in humanizing medical care and medical education. Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the ethical and spiritual issues our society and medical care grapple with today.

Gabor Mate, MD

rather than offering quick-fix solutions to the complex issues of healthcare, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.,

is a world-renowned expert in the mind-body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health-care revolution that recognizes the role of meaning and the spiritual dimensions of life as integral parts of health and healing. A licensed psychologist with a doctorate in cell biology from Harvard Medical School, she synthesizes cutting-edge science with deep humanity.

Kelly Turner, Ph.D.

is the New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, now in 20 languages, which summarizes her research into the radical remission of cancer – when someone heals from cancer without Western medicine or after Western medicine has failed. Over the past decade, she has conducted research in 10 different countries and analyzed over 1,500 cases of radical remission.

“The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.”

—Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

What Do The Whole Health Medicine Institute Programs Include?

For many years, health care providers and healers who wanted to participate in the Whole Health Medicine Institute but lived overseas or couldn’t take enough time away from their jobs or families have asked whether there’s a way to learn how to facilitate Whole Health Medicine without flying across the world twice in one year.

In response to countless requests, we are finally offering two levels of participation this year, the Virtual Curriculum and the Immersion Curriculum as well as of course our WHMI Alumni Program (info here).

All courses begin March 30, 2020 with our Welcome Call.

For those participating in the Immersion Curriculum the first 4-Day Live, In-Person Heal The Healer Retreat, is from October 22–25, 2020 and the 4-Day Live, In-Person Fulfill Your Calling Retreat, is from March 25-28, 2021 at the Acqua Hotel in Mill Valley, California.

The chart below details exactly what you'll get from each program:

For complete descriptions of the Two 4-day Live Retreats included in the Immersion program, click here.

For the complete listing of the Thirty-one Prerecorded Course Modules included in the WHMI curriculum, click here.

Sign Up Today to Receive

TWO AMAZING BONUSES AT NO ADDITIONAL COST

BONUS #1

VISIONARY IGNITION SWITCH

Fire Up Your Message, Money & Meaning in the World

with Lissa Rankin & Amy Ahlers ($1,497 value)

You'll get access to this comprehensive business development program as a part of the Business Development pillar of the WHMI program. This 8-week webinar will help guide you in:

Co-taught by WHMI founder Lissa Rankin, MD and Rachel Remen, MD, author of New York Times bestselling books, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings which have sold more than a million copies and been translated into 23 languages. Dr. Remen is also Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine and the Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal.

The Medicine For The Soul teleclass series picks up where Western medicine leaves off, offering you the kind of soul medicine shamans practice. The program teaches tools and practices that you can apply to yourself and share with your clients.

Designed to diagnose and treat what the shamans call “soul loss,” this program is meant to heal you by helping your soul take over as the guiding force of your life.

Since healing the healer is a core pillar of the Whole Health Medicine Institute this program will be an essential part of your own personal and spiritual healing, and teach you how to facilitate the same sort of transformation in the lives of your clients.

Thank you, for the excellent program that challenged me to grow and to step into my true calling.

Christine Gibson, MD

I knew the health system was broken and that I was broken within it.

Something I could not have dreamed of before I began this healing journey and perspective shift.

Lissa helps you understand that we are not broken, just not integrating our wholeness, and she teaches us how.

Kay Corpus, MD

The Whole Health Medicine Institute came into my life at just the right moment. I felt the familiar pressures in my medical practice... It was exhausting.

No place have I found such an innovative and intuitively designed program.

I am forever grateful to Lissa and the WHMI for breaking open my heart and mind to possibility.

Timea Belej-Rak, MD

I have found new meaning in my work, and the world of medicine as I used to know it is forever changed!

I have connected with my new tribe and made friendships that will last a lifetime.

I can’t wait to be able to heal more of my patients as a whole, rather than just a physical being.

Kamilla (Kamie) Buddemeier M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I

This journey is not for the faint of heart, but ask yourself – “Am I more afraid of realizing my true potential or am I more afraid of staying stuck in a position not aligned with my inner purpose”?

I invite you to go inward and ask the question that may ignite your life!

Gail Yablonsky

Incredible cutting-edge material & concepts!

I now have a structured format practicing as a holistic health care counselor.

Praise for the WHMI

Mary Louder, MD

I was at a crossroads as to how I wanted to practice as a physician.

I wanted to be seen for who I was and how I practiced medicine.

Thank you, for the excellent program that challenged me to grow and to step into my true calling.

Christine Gibson, MD

I knew the health system was broken and that I was broken within it.

Something I could not have dreamed of before I began this healing journey and perspective shift.

Lissa helps you understand that we are not broken, just not integrating our wholeness, and she teaches us how.

Kay Corpus, MD

The Whole Health Medicine Institute came into my life at just the right moment. I felt the familiar pressures in my medical practice... It was exhausting.

No place have I found such an innovative and intuitively designed program.

I am forever grateful to Lissa and the WHMI for breaking open my heart and mind to possibility.

Timea Belej-Rak, MD

I have found new meaning in my work, and the world of medicine as I used to know it is forever changed!

I have connected with my new tribe and made friendships that will last a lifetime.

I can’t wait to be able to heal more of my patients as a whole, rather than just a physical being.

Kamilla (Kamie) Buddemeier M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I

This journey is not for the faint of heart, but ask yourself – “Am I more afraid of realizing my true potential or am I more afraid of staying stuck in a position not aligned with my inner purpose”?

I invite you to go inward and ask the question that may ignite your life!

Gail Yablonsky

Incredible cutting-edge material & concepts!

I now have a structured format practicing as a wholistic health care counselor.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I contact customer service at Whole Health Medicine Institute?

Please contact us by sending an email to pearl@lissarankin.com

I’m looking to expand my education and potentially start a practice outside the insurance-based system. How should I decide what to do?

If you are looking to study a specific healing modality or body-oriented practice then there are many highly recommended schools that provide this type of focused study.

If you are seeking to understand and practice the psychological and spiritual healing and transformation that is the critical element across all practices – whether they are allopathic, integrative, or alternative – then WHMI is for you. WHMI training focuses very specifically on root cause work and personal transformation

Which should I choose, the Immersion Curriculum or the Virtual Curriculum?

The in-person retreats associated with the Immersion Curriculum are a powerful opportunity to accelerate your personal and professional growth, but it is a personal inquiry as to whether it works for your schedule, the depth with which you want to explore this new way of approaching health care, and your finances.

How much of a time commitment will this be? Will this interfere with my full-time job, the attention I give my children and my partner, or my self-care?

Whether you are a busy professional, in transition, ready to restart, the program is designed to adjust to your professional needs and availability. You are able to choose all modules or just the areas you want to focus on. Here some examples of different intentions.